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titleWhat choices do I have for my 2nd factor?

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Is this you?

Your choices are:

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Local employees who come to the office

  1. the MS Authenticator app installed on your cell phone

  2. a security key/fob that you carry around

We recommend using the MS Authenticator app because it is convenient and you can use it for non-RRU MFA needs as well.

The key/fobs can be easily lost and are expensive.

Offsite employees, academic and non-academic contractors, students

  1. the MS Authenticator app installed on your cell phone

The MS Authenticator app is convenient and you can use it for non-RRU MFA needs as well.

The key/fobs can be easily lost and are expensive. Managing key/fobs for such a large group of people will be cost and resource prohibitive.

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titleHow much data is used by the Authenticator app?

We don’t have exact numbers but in 3 months, an IT staffer who relies on MS Authenticator to authenticate on multiple apps used 2 megabytes (mb) of data. For a year, that would be approximately 8mb.

One gigabyte (gb) of data is 1000 mbs. So, one can expect to use less than 1% of a gb in one year.

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